If you’ll indulge me for a moment, I have a prediction about the future of Gutenberg and WordPress. A year from now, all blogs will have what I’m calling “The Gutenlook.” Website owners will want the clean, easy-to-read design that Gutenberg provides, and we’ll all slowly start to adopt The Gutenlook until it eventually takes over… Continue Reading >
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Jump start WordPress projects with WP CLI Scaffolding
As a developer, I find I do a lot of the same things on a regular basis. I may set up a new plugin, start a new theme, add a specific feature to a theme or plugin, set up tests, or other repetitive tasks. These tasks usually share a similar starting point, even if the… Continue Reading >
Meet the Reaktiv Studios Team: Jay Hoffmann
Hello all, I’m Jay Hoffmann, Lead Developer at Reaktiv hailing from just outside NYC. I joined Reaktiv in January of 2017 and have been hacking away with this incredible team ever since. Before coming to Reaktiv, I’d always worked for pretty large companies: first at Sesame Street and later at Penguin Random House. What drew… Continue Reading >
Meet the Reaktiv Studios Team: Faison Zutavern
Hello there, I’m Faison Zutavern. I joined Reaktiv Studios in April of 2017 as a Senior Developer. At that time, I lived in Wisconsin, but quickly moved south to Missouri where there are a lot more mountains and a lot less winter. Continue Reading >
Time-tested Advice for Successful Remote Teamwork
Distributed team, remote work, work-from-home, telecommuting, flex work… whatever you call it, you can’t deny the impact technology has had on the flexibility and mobility of modern workers. The concept of distributed teams is nothing new, but the past decade has brought about an explosion in the number of people who work from home at… Continue Reading >
Meet the Reaktiv Studios Team : Nick Croft
Hi, my name is Nick Croft and I am a geek. Not just any geek but a super geek. I’m talking comics, books, eclectic instruments and musical tastes, electronics, and just about any other geeky thing you can think of. Continue Reading >
How To Get Started with Attributes in Gutenberg Blocks
When I first started building custom blocks with Gutenberg I’d always start with the edit function. Then I’d move to the save function and make sure the right kind of HTML was saved to the database. Attributes were basically an afterthought for me. I had a vague idea that they defined some of the data in my… Continue Reading >